Subject: Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964 and the
Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 – Submission of Declaration of Assets
and Liabilities by the Public Servant for each year – Regarding

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s OM No.
11013/3/2014 Estt.(A) dated the 17th February, 2015 regarding submission
of declaration of assets and liabilities by the public servants under
the Central Civil services (Conduct) rules, and the Lokapl land Lokayuktas Act, 2013 and to say that as per the rule 18 (1)
(i) of the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964, every
Government servant shall on his first appointment to any service or post
submit a return of his assets and liabilities, in the form prescribed by the Government, giving the full particulars of movable,
immovable and valuable property and debts and other liabilities, etc..
Similarly, Government servants other than newly appointed, belonging to
Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’ are required to submit an annual return in
prescribed form giving full particulars of the immovable property
inherited/ owned/ acquired by him/ her or held by him/her on lease/
mortgage either in his/ her own name or in the name of any member of
his/ her family or in the name of any other persons.

2. The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 (Lokpal Act) notified by the
Government requires all public servants to declare, on first
appointment and subsequently every year, a declaration of his/ her
assets & liabilities. In exercise of powers conferred by sub-section

(1), clause (k) and clause (I) of sub-section (2) of Section 59 read
with section 44 and 45 of the Act, this Department has notified the
Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets
and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing
Returns) Rules, 2014. The form for declarations is at Annexure-I. All
Government servants i.e., belonging to Group A, Group B, Group C and
erstwhile Group D, are now required to furnish the declaration of their assets & liabilities in the enclosed format.

3. Vide D. 0. No. 407/12/2014-AVD-IV-B dated the 30th April, 2015, this
Department has informed all concerned the time-lines for filing the
returns regarding assets and liabilities under the Lokpal Act, which are
as follows:

(i) The first return under the Lokpal Act (as on 1st August, 2014) should be filed on or before 15th October. 2015;

ii) The next annual return under the Lokpal Act, for the year ending
31st March. 2015 should be filed on or before 15th October 2015; and

(iii) The annual returns for subsequent years as on 31st March every year should be filed on or before 31st July of that year.

4. It is, therefore, requested that all concerned may be suitably
advised to file the return within the time indicated in paragraph 3. It
is relevant to state here that as per section 45 of the Lokpal Act, if
any public servant wilfully or for reasons which are not justifiable,
fails to (a) to declare his assets; or (b) gives misleading information
in respect of such assets and is found to be in possession of assets not
disclosed or in respect of which misleading information was furnished,
then, such assets shall, unless otherwise proved, be presumed to belong
to the public servant and shall be presumed to be assets acquired by
corrupt means.

Jammu and Kashmir government women employees can now get 2-years child care leave

Srinagar: In a major welfare measure for women employees in Jammu and
Kashmir, the state government today approved Child Care leave for them
for a period of two years to look after their children.

The Government issued a notification allowing the Child Care leave
for its women employees. As per the new provision, a women employee can
avail a maximum period of 730 days of child care leave during her entire
service for taking care of her two eldest children, an official
spokesman said.

He said the leave can be taken to look after the children’s
education, illness and other similar requirements. The spokesman said
after approval by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Finance
Department has issued the notification incorporating the child care
leave in the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Leave) Rules.

During the period of child care leave, a woman employee shall be paid
leave salary equal to pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave
and the child care leave can be combined with any other kind of leave,
the spokesman said.

However, the leave shall not be granted for more than three spells in
a calendar year, he said. The spokesman said though child care leave
can be claimed only after completion of probation period by the
employee, yet as a humanitarian gesture, some minimum child care leave
can be allowed to a probationer in certain extreme circumstances.

The present PDP-BJP coalition Government in its first budget had
announced that the child care leave shall be introduced in the State
Leave Rules so that the difficulties faced by working mothers is
resolved and women employees get this benefit at par with Central
Government employees.

Recruitment against Sports Quota on
the basis of medal winning position in All India Inter University
Championships only through Open Advertisement Quota.

RBE No.81/2015
Clarification/Corrigendum No.59

Government of India
Ministry of Railways
(Railway Board)

No.2015/E(Sports)/4(1)/11/Open Adv.

New Delhi, dated 16th July, 2015

The General Managers (P),
All Zonal Railways including
CLW, DLW, ICF, RCF, RWF, Metro Railway/Kolkata,
The CAO(R), DMW/Patiala,
ThG DG, RDSOz/Lucknow.Recruitment against Sports Quota on the basis of medal winning
position in All India Inter University Championships only through Open
Advertisement Quota.

(ii) 2012/E(Sports)/4(1)/1/Policy Clarification dated 18.04.2012 (RBE No.52/2012).
During the Presidents Secretaries Meeting (PSM) of Railway Sports
Promotion Board, held at Rail Bhawan on 18.05.2015, it was decided to
stop recruitment of sports persons against sports quota through Talent
Scouting, on the basis of medal winning position in All India Inter
University Championships, as per Board’s policy letters mentioned above-
The proposal has accordingly been considered and approved by Railway
Board.

2. It is, accordingly, advised that for all future recruitment (from the
year 201-16 onwards) in Grade Pay Rs. 1900/2000 in scale Rs.1900/2000
in scale Rs.5,200-20,200 (PB-I) against sports quota on the basis of
medal winning performance (at least 3rd position) in All India Inter
University Championships may only be considered for recruitment against
Open Advertisement Quota. However, in such cases where trials have
already been conducted for recruitment through Talent Scouting, before
the date of issue of this letter, the some may be finalized as Per
Policy.

7th Pay Commission must rationalise India’s obese and unwieldy bureaucracy
The
Seventh Pay Panel report should press for the rationalisation of
government salaries and making bureaucracy leaner and more efficient.

The
four-member Seventh Central Pay Commission, led by former Supreme Court
Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, will soon come up with its recommendations
to determine a salary structure for central government employees. As
always, the salary structure is supposed to be linked to “the need to
attract the most suitable talent to government service, promote
efficiency, accountability and responsibility in the work culture, and
foster excellence in the public governance system”.

Salaries in
government must perforce be benchmarked to the income of the general
population as also those of private sector employees. According to a
World Bank survey, the average salary of a government employee in the UK
during 1995-2000 was £19,000 per year – 1.4 times the average income of
British citizens. This ratio was 1.0 in Indonesia, 1.2 in China, 1.4 in
the US, 1.5 in South Korea and so on. The average annual income of
government employees in India on the other hand was as much as 4.8 times
the average income of the Indian citizen.

A disproportionately
liberal remuneration package in comparison with the private sector
generates an unhealthy clamour for government jobs and distorts the
labour market. The bureaucracy also enjoys a plethora of perks such as
residential bungalows, cars, a retinue of personal staff and so on, all
of which put additional burden on the state exchequer.

An obese
and unwieldy bureaucracy is the single most pernicious malady afflicting
governance. It clogs the channels of communication, leads to delays,
diffusion of responsibility, and spiralling costs. Foreign investors
find it harrowing to do business in India on account of what Arun
Shourie calls multiple silos in which ministries function, thereby
creating a sclerotic system.

Thanks to regular cadre restructures
and inter-service competition, the bureaucracy has seen a steady
expansion. In 1947 the number of secretariat departments at the Centre
was 18. Today, the number of Secretary level officials is over 150.
There are as many Additional Secretaries or equivalent, not to speak of a
battalion of Joint Secretaries. The authorised IAS cadre strength now
exceeds 6,150 – up from 1,230 in 1951.

In the corporate world
slimming a workforce by a tenth of its size is standard practice. Why
shouldn’t governments do it too if needed? Sweden and Canada have done
it and yet managed to retain effective public services. In 1993 then US
President Bill Clinton had laid out a blueprint aiming at reducing the
federal work force by 2,52,000, designed to bring about a savings of
$108 billion over a five-year period.
Recommendations of the Fifth
Central Pay Commission (CPC-V) had included a 30% reduction in
government jobs over a period of 10 years; reduction of the number of
Secretary level posts from 90 to 30; abolishing 3,50,000 vacant posts;
pruning the current five to six administrative layers to not more than
two; functional multi-tasking and so on. But these recommendations got a
quiet burial.

The Indian state today has a lopsided staff
structure. Ninety-five per cent of its employees belong to categories
‘C’ and ‘D’. In most states, almost three-fourths of all government
employees are parasitical support staff such as peons, chowkidars,
drivers and clerks. Nothing has really happened on CPC-VI’s
recommendation to phase out Group ‘D’ staff, most of whom are unskilled
and sometimes even illiterate.
Government today needs more
specialists, fewer generalists. Several senior positions can be better
filled by short-term contracts, enabling lateral entry of technocrats,
professionals and entrepreneurs to supplement and strengthen a system
dominated by the general elite.

Pay panels impose no small burden
on the country’s finances. The central fiscal deficit under the impact
of CPC-VI jumped from 2.5% in 2007-08 to 6.5% in 2009-10. Post-CPC-V,
the annual wage bill of central government employees rose from Rs 21,885
crore in 1996-97 to Rs 43,568 crore in 1999-2000. Likewise, state
governments’ expenditure on salaries increased from Rs 51,548 crore to
Rs 89,813 crore during the same period, compelling 13 states to seek
central help to pay staff salaries.

Again, post CPC-VI, and
between 2007-08 and 2013-14, the annual wage bill of central employees
more than doubled to Rs 1,15,000 crore. The wage bill of government
staff in the states jumped to Rs 2,86,000 crore from Rs 1,36,000 crore. A
World Bank study revealed that “employees have effectively captured
control over state spending in health and education, and diverted most
of it to themselves through salaries, with negative consequences for
service delivery”.

While the aam admi – the peasant, the stone
breaker, the daily wage earner, the rural landless, the urban slum
dweller – toils, these entitled babus take their place in government for
granted. No hearts should bleed for privileged government employees
battening on their inflation-indexed dearness allowance installments.

Is the Seventh Central Pay Commission listening?
The writer is former Managing Director, Container Corporation of India

Guidelines of regularization of GPRA in the name of the eligible
spouse / ward of the allottee in the event of death/retirement/transfer

No.12031/1/2013-Pol.IIGovernment of IndiaMinistry of Urban DevelopmentDirectorate of Estates

Nirman Bhawan,New Delhi-110 108.

Dated the 17th July, 2015

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Guidelines on regularization/ allotment of alternate
general pool residential accommodation in the name of the eligible
spouse / ward of the allottee in the event of death/retirement/transfer
of the allottee.

Vide instructions of this Directorate O.M.
of even number dated 18.2.2014, guidelines on regularization / allotment
of alternate general pool residential accommodation in the name of the
eligible spouse / ward of the allottee in the event of
death/retirement/transfer of the allottee were issued. On review of the
said guidelines, it is found that the issue related to regularization of
general pool residential accommodation in the name of eligible
spouse/ward of allottee, who owns a house at the place of posting or his
/ her family owns a house at the place of posting, but his /her policy
is covered by allotment of that house has not been inadvertently
incorporated in the OM dated 18.2.2014.

2. Therefore, paragraph
2(iv)(f)(i) of the said guidelines is modified and shall be read as
below instead of existing entries in the OM dated 18.2.2014:

“Where the allottee or any member of his / her family owns a house at
the place of posting where regularization is being sought. However,
either one type below accommodation or same accommodation may be
regularized in the name of ward / spouse only in case his / her date of
priority was covered on the date of retirement of the retiring allottee
or on the date of death of the deceased allottee, irrespective of the
fact that they are house-owner at the place of their posting subject to
the condition that the licence fee is charged on house owing allottees
of general pool residential accommodation as per the guidelines from
time to time; and.”

A Government servant can draw the Leave Travel Concession advance 65 days before the proposed date of outward journey.

Indian Railways has fixed the advance reservation period as 120 days
excluding the date of journey w.e.f. 01.04.2015 for all long distance
mail/express trains as well as Shatabdi Express trains.

The issue of any change in instructions relating to drawal of advance
for LTC has to be decided keeping in view all factors including changes
made by the Railways, as well as financial implications.

This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the
Prime Minister’s Office, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a
question by Shri Kiranmay Nanda in the Rajya Sabha today.